A study of hovering putto

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Artist Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (Italian, 1727-1804)

CultureItalian

MediumBlack and white chalk on blue paper

DimensionsImage: 10 1/4 x 7 5/16 in. (26 x 18.6 cm)
Matted: 13 3/4 x 10 1/8 in. (34.9 x 25.7 cm)

Credit LineGift of Katrine Ames, class of 1969, in memory of Anna Ames, class of 1928, and Winslow Ames

Period18th c

Classification(s)

Drawings and Watercolors

BibliographyKnox, G. "G. B. Tiepolo and the ceiling of the Scalzi." The Burlington Magazine, July 1968, 398, no. 9, 400, fig. 54 Tiepolo, Giovanni Battista., Baron von Hadeln, Detlev. The Drawings of G. B. Tiepolo. United States: Hacker Art Books, 1970, 25, no. 172ProvenanceGiovanni Domenico Bossi;
Thence by descent Maria Carolina Bossi and Karl Christian Friederich Beyerlen,
Stuttgart, H.G Gutekunst, March 27, 1882;
Purchased by Dr. Hans Wendland, Lugano;
Sotheby's, London, February 19, 1930, lot 133;
Purchased by de Vries, Amsterdam, 1930;
Sotheby's, London, March 23, 1972, lot 133;
Sotheby's, New York, Old Master Drawings, January 25, 2017, lot 55;
Purchased by Katrine Ames

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